First Kiosk, Stockholm

Water Festival: Central Stockholm 1997 First outdoor public kiosk

Public DataWeb built the first series of street kiosks for the Stockholm Water Festival in 1997

and in Sheffield in 2000.

The advantage of this type of kiosk is they can be installed for free in exchange for advertising wrapping around them. However this obscures their function to a great extent. the Umbrella is the answer but the cost of it and the service has to come from public funds.

We learned that these enclosed booth type kiosks and even kiosks simply with a front and a unused back surface had problems. We learned from operating live public kiosk services, then redesigned the kiosks, ironing out all the features that resulted in under usage. Basically these 'usability' results are 360 vision and access and illumination; this knowledge resulted in our design for the Umbrella iKiosk.